revisiting the anonymous browse issue

[Brian Henning]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

Here's what I found that solved the problem.

Steps:
1) Turn ON "Simple File Sharing"
2) Go to "Sharing and Security" for a shared folder.
3) Notice that it indicates that "Remote access to this computer has 
been disabled"
4) Click the link to activate remote access without using the wizard and 
answer confirmation dialog appropriately.
5) Turn OFF "Simple File Sharing"

...and done.

Argh.  I know that the change that the above steps enacts can be found 
somewhere by more direct means, but I don't remember where.

Cheers,
~Brian


Brian Henning wrote:
> Hiya folks,
>   I asked this question a couple months ago and sadly none of the sage 
> advice I received ended up being useful..  I still have two XP Pro 
> machines, both with SP2, one of which allows anonymous browse of its 
> shared resources and one does not (a recap of the example net view 
> output is below).
> 
> Anyhow, now I have another machine that is refusing anonymous browse, 
> and I need to figure out how to get it allowed.
> 
> So.  If anyone else has advice, that'd be great.  Also great would be 
> pointers to other lists or IRC channels that would be appropriate for 
> posing this question.
> 
> Cheers and thanks,
> ~Brian
> 
> 
> 
> P.S.: The sample net view output:
> 
> C:\>net view \\kermit
> Shared resources at \\kermit
> 
> Share name  Type  Used as  Comment
> ----------------------------------------
> UPSShare    Disk
> The command completed successfully.
> 
> 
> C:\>net view \\piggy
> System error 5 has occurred.
> 
> Access is denied.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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